Europe Garbage piles up on streets of UK’s second-largest city after monthlong sanitation strike LONDON (AP) — There is a stink rising over the United Kingdom’s second-largest city.

The population is estimated to have grown by more than 700,000 people in the year to June 2024, the second largest annual ...

Britain’s second-biggest city effectively declared itself bankrupt on Tuesday, shutting down all nonessential spending after being issued with equal pay claims totaling up to £760 million ($954 ...

Birmingham city council, the local government body of the U.K.'s second-largest city, effectively declared itself bankrupt on Tuesday because it doesn’t have enough money to pay £760 million ...